Basement water seepage from cement floor

[pumpkee]

I'd love to learn more about runoff from neighbor grant programs! In MI where I live, I am amazed how the city inspector approved the grading work on my home from builder and on my neighbors skateboard ramp style driveway/porch.it all hits my house!

[Butterfly4u]

ftang,
Seriously, I'd move.
You did all you could do, try to find another home without a basement.
They stopped building homes with basements in high water table areas in the 80's.
Too expensive and risky for the homeowners.
They make walk out basements now, which are nice actually.
My best friend bought a 70's home in High water table Bucks County, PA about 15 years ago.
She had the basement waterproofed after her first flood out. Everything destroyed.
She has had multiple floods since, and now the back yard is falling into a giant storm drain.
You can have it, I would just move and get something without a basement.
Life is short.

[chet everett]

Originally Posted by Butterfly4u

ftang,
Seriously, I'd move.
You did all you could do, try to find another home without a basement.
They stopped building homes with basements in high water table areas in the 80's.
Too expensive and risky for the homeowners.
They make walk out basements now, which are nice actually.
My best friend bought a 70's home in High water table Bucks County, PA about 15 years ago.
She had the basement waterproofed after her first flood out. Everything destroyed.
She has had multiple floods since, and now the back yard is falling into a giant storm drain.
You can have it, I would just move and get something without a basement.
Life is short.

There have been MANY advances in the technology AND understanding of how to ensure basements remain dry in nearly ANY condition over the last decade or so.
Where once it was OK to mop some tar on the foundation and then backfill with whatever was dug out for the foundation now specific products are accepted as superior. Typically this means that it is no longer acceptable to have a low skilled "mud packer" backfill the foundation but instead professional excavation specialists need time to apply an appropriate waterproofing sealer, followed by proper polyproplyene dimpled drain board, corrugated weeping drains with geotextile sock and then the correct mix of gravel, sand and well draining soil. Excess clay will need to moved away from the foundation. Even the care taken to properly layout the footings, allow them to cure, and then have proper aggregate laid out to ensure a well supported basement floor are all much more carefully engineered than they once were.

In short, with the kinds of knowledge that engineers have learned from much better understanding of how water can be directly away from a foundation it is possible to have a dry basement in nearly any area these days.

[pumpkee]

Originally Posted by chet everett

There have been MANY advances in the technology AND understanding of how to ensure basements remain dry in nearly ANY condition over the last decade or so.
Where once it was OK to mop some tar on the foundation and then backfill with whatever was dug out for the foundation now specific products are accepted as superior. Typically this means that it is no longer acceptable to have a low skilled "mud packer" backfill the foundation but instead professional excavation specialists need time to apply an appropriate waterproofing sealer, followed by proper polyproplyene dimpled drain board, corrugated weeping drains with geotextile sock and then the correct mix of gravel, sand and well draining soil. Excess clay will need to moved away from the foundation. Even the care taken to properly layout the footings, allow them to cure, and then have proper aggregate laid out to ensure a well supported basement floor are all much more carefully engineered than they once were.

In short, with the kinds of knowledge that engineers have learned from much better understanding of how water can be directly away from a foundation it is possible to have a dry basement in nearly any area these days.

Thank you for the hope I was looking for, but aren't such services in the outrages out of budget for most home owners seeking to resolve grading issues first?